. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. I. t M m '! Il. 11 il" 538 LA PE'ROUSE's voyage javelins, and a kind of fpontoon, which they ufe principally in bear-hunting. By the fide of their houfes are the magazines, in which they lay up the provifion which they have prepared and col- leded during fummer for their winter fubfiftence. It confitls of dried filh, and a confide
. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. I. t M m '! Il. 11 il" 538 LA PE'ROUSE's voyage javelins, and a kind of fpontoon, which they ufe principally in bear-hunting. By the fide of their houfes are the magazines, in which they lay up the provifion which they have prepared and col- leded during fummer for their winter fubfiftence. It confitls of dried filh, and a confiderable quantity of garlic and wild celery, angelica, a bulbous root which they call ape, better known under the name of the yellow lily of Kamtfchatka, and fifli oil, which they preferve in the (lomachs of bears, and other large animals. Thefe magazines are made of planks, ftrongly and clofely put together, raifed above the ground on flakes about four feet high. Dogs are the only domeftic animals belonging to the natives of Tchoka ; they are of a middling fize, with fliaggy hair, pricked ears, and a Iharp long muzzle; their cry is loud and not favage. Thefe iflanders are the only uncivilized people that we have vifited, if, indeed, they may with propriety be called uncivilized, who make ufe of looms j theirs, though fmall enough to be eafily portable, is a very complete inftrument. They alfo prepare, by means of fpindles, thread of the hair of animals, or the bark of willow, and die great nettle, from which they fabricate their fluffs. Thefe people, who are of a very mild and un- fufpecling difpofuion, appear to have commer- cial intercourfe v*ith the Chinefe by means of the Mantchou Tartars, with the RufTians to the north. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original La Pérouse, Jean François de Gala
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